Anycubic Photon 101: Resin Basics: Getting Started

In this Anycubic Photon 101 video, I cover the basics of the resin that came with your Anycubic Photon as well as resin properties and how they behave and react in your machine.

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Anycubic Users Group Documentation: Good stuff here!!

Anycubic Users Group Resin Spreadsheet: Use this as a guide! Your mileage may vary!

[abledog]

I'm about to get my first 3D printer... Anycubic Photon, (it shipped today), and your videos have answered questions I didn't even know I'd be asking... great content, thank you!!!!

[michaelvieths]

I just got a Photon, and none of my early prints were working. Even the test cube looked like it had melted. Turns out the cube file was calibrated for green, and the bottle I got was Eco Orange. Your handsome mug got me through it, and now I'm happily printing my miniatures. :) Thank you so much.

[Anarchy-Is-Liberty]

This was basically everything BUT about resin!!

[CalibratedCore]

Fantastic video! I just received my Photon and about to print the test cube. Wish me luck! :)

[feudaltrinity]

I needed this. I’m new to 3D printing and heard this noise. Thankful it’s normal.

[WBSK]

Got my Photon last night. The test cube came out perfect on the first go!

Can’t wait to try new ideas but I’m unsure about the settings for other models 🧐

[ericpazder]

Why do all these high-quality channels have so few subs

[Elektronika]

You have best vids about resin printers

[IBIS-D]

My club test come out like failure -, - I'm completely lost so I rewatching all videos

[DJapan]

I've only tried 3 resins. The one from Longer 3D that came with my Orange 10 printer, which actually gave very nice results, Anycubic Grey, which took ages to print, like twice as long as the Longer resin. Finally my favorite so far, Siraya Tech Fast (grey). Really fast, low smell, and it looks nice.

[scorpiot]

😂 great video! My kind of lessons 🙏🏼 about to try out the photon s this week!

[arcadedelprof]

Thanks for the headsup on the spread sheet!

[DrBDR]

Great 👍. Thanks for information, i didnt know the exposure time affect on print quality. Waiting for more about tips and tricks.

[avkdprinting]

Great video haha keep up the great work.

[jonathanfesmiresteampunkau]

Wow, things have changed with the Photon in the last year and a half. Mine didn't come with resin and I had to prepare the test print in Photon Workshop. Also, the version of Photon Workshop it came with doesn't save the files correctly so I had to download the latest version.

[johnlipinski]

I'm just getting started. Is there ever too much resin in the vat? Theres no fill ine in the vat that I have.

[ginnynewman]

New resin printer. Been an FDM printer for too long to remember. Why didn't I make the jump sooner? Because of the mess. The Anycubic Wash and Cure was a game changer. Now, I need to get more info about the numbers. Like cure time, layer height, etc. I find it confusing. Do you have a video that includes something like 'this number means this and if you change it higher, this is what you can expect, if you change it to be lower, you can expect this instead'. Your content is awesome, BTW. Learning so much!

[multibob]

Nice Video. ☺️ You have a new subscriber ☺️ . I have a question : my photon (was a gift from my friend) works wonderful. But the UVglass from the case -the Dior, the sides and the top -(yours are red my are blue) are so dirty from resin. I want to know how Clean this plexi UV glass. Do you have a Tipp for me.
Greetings from Germany ☺️

[fuelforfear]

This is probably a dumb question. I have the spreadsheet but where do I put all those settings. I have made 3 small minis I sliced them with the default settings but I have had 5 fails. What’s happening is it will run for a few hours and the when I can see the print I notice that only a few supports are there and nothing else. Please help I am only 3 days in and am learning. Thanks in advance love your Chanel

[MastaFloyd]

Have you ever tried mixing 2 colours together? Like pour Green on one half of the vat and pour blue on the other half and print them to get a mixed color print? I would assume you would have to get colours that have similar curing times and properties.